Are those persons’ good opinions of you generally correct, in your opinion? Why or why not?
Poll in a moment. The results will be private because I am not wearing my evil hat at the moment.
Think of the persons who think most higly of you (other than your parents) and answer this question.
Of course their opinion is correct. As is your sig. If more people would adopt it, the SDMB would be a much better place.
I think so but to be honest, a lot of the time I assume that when someone has a good opinion of me that they’re wrong or have been misled in some way. It’s kind of a problem…
O Goddess, You are, of course, perfectly aware of this, but for the sake of the vulgar I feel constrained to point out that You are a special case.
Plplplplplplplp! to Athena. My boy is all that and a nymph sandwich.
I am everything they imagine, and more.
Their opinion of me is correct, but then again, it isn’t all that high.
I am not in fact the strongest daddy in the world, but I don’t mind being told that I am.
None of your possible answers are quite right for me. The people who think highly of me are right to think that I behave well and am generally kind to people, but they vastly underestimate how selfish I am. I am definitely the center of my own little world!
The way I look at it, they’re probably as right to think highly of me as I am to think highly of the people I do. I’m not perfect, and I’m not under the illusion that any of those people I think the world of are either.
My parents don’t likely think highly of me anyway. I value all the wrong things like logic, reason, and treating all children like they might become independent adults someday… snerk.
I guess maybe my sister might qualify. I think she’s proud that I successfully improved my credit rating after my bankruptcy and went from the red to the black. And that I managed to do passingly well for myself, despite being raised by the abusive and/or neglectful dingbats that raised us both. But I’m a pretty selfish person, and I don’t try to hide it. I think she’s realistic about that.
Anyway, ruminations aside, I would say that my sister’s opinion of me is fairly spot-on. I don’t have any worshippers anymore. I used to have a group of band-parents and classmates in high school who had some vision of me as a perfect little angel who could do no wrong, but thankfully all that stopped when I left my hometown.
The only people that get it wrong are those who voted me as being most likely to succeed back in junior high.
In general, I think that the people who think highly of me are people whom I also think highly of. So I respect their opinion enough that, if they think I’m awesome, there must be something to it. It’s a comforting thought when I’m having a down day.
My friend just brings out the best in me. Other people, like my husband, bring out the stressed, impatient busybody-me. So, both their opinions of me are right.
People guess based on superficial clues. People closer to you obviously have better idea but they don’t really see through… even parents only see so far.
As far as I can tell, people tend to think at least a little more highly of me than I think is really justified.
What the hell. Yes, I am as awesome as they think I am.
I put in the ice cream and cake option, because, honestly, how do you answer this question? Not too long ago a very dear friend told me, after I told her that my mother was the strongest women I knew, that I was the strongest woman she knew. I was completely taken aback. Me?
It is very hard to believe good press about yourself, and moreover, to believe that the other people mean the good press, if your self-esteem is not that high. I don’t say mine is weak, or low, but it used to be, and it took me long enough to get it this far.
So, I suppose, in some options, sure. I’m as tough as they say I am. My SO realizes this sometimes - I know sometimes he thinks of me as someone to take care of, and I’m all right with that, but sometimes I can almost see him blink and realize how much I take care of myself.
And sometimes they way overestimate me. I’m not as kind or as giving as people seem to think.
Oh, and people’s parents think highly of them? Really? I pretty much figured every parent was disappointed on some level with their kids. I Guess that says something about me, then!
^^^ This. Its’ like exchanging the roles. But yes, most of the time I mean around 95% times, they are correct!
Many people seem to think I am efficient and focussed. I know I am just lazy and try to do the least I need to accomplish any given thing.
People seem to believe I am a very deep thinker, but I just don’t care for idle smalltalk.
They think I am very intelligent, probably because I often have a book with me to avoid being bored by the flighty, chit-chatters I sometimes need to be around.
Because I have not been drunk in public since college and I don’t waste my money when visiting the casinos, people seem to assume I have any number of other virtues. But I am really just too cheap to buy enough booze to get sloshed or to gamble (I understand odds well enough to not see any point in giving a casino my money).
So I needed to vote that they are mostly wrong since they do not know my motivations behind the “generally recognized as admirable” behaviours I exhibit. Because I rarely do anything not driven by laziness or self-interest.